The latest news on February 3, the official website of the Chinese Volleyball Association announced that Cai Bin served as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team for the second time.
Regarding Cai Bin's second time as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, in fact, it is already expected by everyone. Because there was already a lot of speculation in this regard a few years ago. According to internal information, the Volleyball Association has decided to let Cai Bin serve as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and has let him carry out his work, including the selection of players. However, the official has not announced this news until after the end of the year. It is more appropriate to announce the news at this time.
This is the second time that Cai Bin has served as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team. In March 2009, Cai Bin served as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team for the first time. However, by March 2010, Cai Bin was fired and did not even have the opportunity to lead the team to play the World Series. In September 2009, he led the Chinese women's volleyball team to participate in the Asian Championship, but only finished second, losing to Thailand in the final. This may be where the Volleyball Association is not satisfied with him.
Cai Bin was replaced by Wang Baoquan after a year of drying. However, Wang Baoquan only worked for 5 months before resigning for physical reasons.
Cai Bin has served as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball national youth team for a long time, and has also served as the head coach of the Shanghai women's volleyball team, the Beijing women's volleyball team and the Jiangsu women's volleyball team, and has achieved good results. In 1997, he became the head coach of the Shanghai women's volleyball team, leading the team to win the championship four times in the National A League.
He signed a contract with the Beijing women's volleyball team in May 2010, and won the A-B League championship that year and was successfully promoted to A-A. In the 2011-12 season, Cai Bin led the team to eighth in the league and fourth in the 2012-13 season. For more than three years, Cai Bin led the Beijing women's volleyball team to three major steps, and the home and away games had "double killed" the Tianjin team.
In May 2014, Cai Bin served as the head coach of Jiangsu women's volleyball team. In the regular season of the 2014-15 season, Jiangsu team, which led the last ranked team in the previous season, won the regular season championship one round in advance and finally won the third place. In the 2016-17 season, he led the Jiangsu women's volleyball team to win the championship and was personally named the best coach in the league. Cai Bin is a coach with a lot of experience.
Cai Bin also wants to be the head coach of the national team and lead the team to achieve good results. In addition to his first national team coaching role in 2009, he also competed for a national team manager in 2001. It was only at that time that Chen Zhonghe served as the head coach of the national team, and Cai Bin regretted not being selected.
Now Cai Bin has more coaching experience and stronger ability, and he is only 55 years old, which is when he is rich and strong, and he should be able to lead the team to achieve good results.
Cai Bin served as the head coach of the national team for the second time, and there are 4 difficult problems in front of him.
First, there are three important events in 2022, and success or failure may determine how long he can play.
In 2022, the Chinese women's volleyball team has three important events, namely the World Women's Volleyball League, the Asian Games Women's Volleyball Competition, and the World Championships. As the champion of the Chinese women's volleyball team, it will naturally find ways to achieve good results. When Lang Dao was the head coach of the national team, he could not pay much attention to the World League, and Cai Bin did not necessarily dare to do so. Then there was the Hangzhou Asian Games. At the Asian Games held on the mainland, the Chinese women's volleyball team will strive to compete for the championship. If Cai Bin leads the team to fail to win the championship, it will be questioned, and it is likely that it will not take long to be dismissed.
There is also the World Women's Volleyball Championship, which is also very important. The Chinese women's volleyball team has not won the World Championship for 36 years. Everyone will not ask Cai Bin to lead the team to win the World Championship, but the results cannot be too bad. Lang Dao served as the head coach of the national team for the second time, and led the team to win 1 runner-up and 1 third place in the World Championships. If Cai Bin leads the team to achieve too poor results at the World Championships, it will also be questioned.
Second, player selection.
When the Chinese team achieves good results, it will feel that every player is very strong. For example, in 2019, when the Chinese women's volleyball team won the World Cup, everyone will feel that the players who can enter the national team are very powerful. However, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost the Tokyo Olympics, and all the players were questioned. Which players to choose to enter the national team will be a headache for Cai Bin.
Third, how to deal with the relationship between Jiangsu women's volleyball team and Tianjin women's volleyball players.
During Cai Bin's tenure as the head coach of the Jiangsu women's volleyball team, he led the team to achieve good results. The Jiangsu women's volleyball team is also the only team that can compete with the Tianjin women's volleyball team in recent seasons. Both teams want to achieve good results, so they do not give in to each other, forming a direct competitive relationship, and there will naturally be friction.
Both teams have a lot of national players. How Cai Bin reasonably arranges the players of the two clubs will be a very test of Cai Bin's ability. I believe that this will become a topic of conversation soon. Who Cai Bin let enter the national team and which players become the main players will cause controversy and even infinite amplification. This will make Cai Bin very nervous.
Fourth, the issue of assistant coaches.
A good assistant coach is a great help to the head coach. Bao Zhuang and An Jiajie, assistant coaches of the former Head Coach of the Chinese Women's Volleyball Team, both went to the club to teach. Cai Bin needs to reorganize the coaching staff. This is also a relatively big problem.
In short, Cai Bin's second time as the head coach of the national team will not be smooth sailing, and there are many problems that need to be solved by him. He needs to weigh the interests of all parties, but also to govern the army strictly, so that the team members are subject to his management.